Force Sensitive Archive
Thread: Trials
Message Edited by ArranSound on 10-02-2004 08:49 AM
Message Edited by iskareot on 05-19-2005 10:36 AM
I c....I knew it was turned off but I started them before CU. But never finnished. ffs. Hope its soon though!
If you expect to force me to buy an upgrade to take the Knight trials, you've lost me and several of my friends as well. And if you do that, I expect you should have to find some way to make EXISTING Knights and ranking Jedi buy the expansion as well. Not only is that the only way to avoid accusations of favoritism, but hey, you can keep trying to turn a buck as well. You want to tinker with the Jedi profession some more? Un-nerf sabers, perhaps, or maybe fix the Padawan trials; the only TRUE challenge in them is dealing with the X amount of bugged quests you receive. Changes, changes, changes. That's pretty much all we see or hear about, but little, and DEFINITELY not enough, about fixes. I think it's sad that every time a good number of your players achieve a landmark of some kind you find some way to subtly slap them in the face and raise the bar. As John Smedley so "amicably" put it recently, "<We> pay the bills around here." You think while there are still some devoted players you might at least stop taking away the things we wind up WORKING for rather than keeping this a fun, enjoyable GAME? "Oh, I'm sorry, the Knight Trials are temporarily closed. No, we can't tell you what they'll involve or when you can take them. We might make you cough up an extra $30, though, but hey, here are some new speeders, and you and a friend (if any of them still play) can ride around together." I'm curious as to whether or not it will look like it's driving backwards to BOTH passengers.
Since I don't want to focus on the negative, I'll make a few suggestions. One, restore the FRS. It's one of the few things keeping some of your long-standing players here. Don't even think about shoving Rage of the Wookiees down the Jedi's throats. If you do, I strongly advise you find a way to make that retroactive, as you're singling out new Jedi and allowing existing Knights to go scott free (you wouldn't want to lose a few bucks, now would you?). Let's focus on some of the AGE-old problems that still exist, rather than making some new ones. And if you could make it so I could listen to/watch an entertainer when I'm standing right in front of them on the FIRST attempt and not the FIFTIETH only be told that I've stopped listening to/watching them because they're too far away, that would be great. Why not start building UP some of the professions you've disappointed us with from the door (SMUGGLER being the BEST example), instead of "dumbing down" and "nerfing" the others. Also, I don't know if you watched the same movies that I'VE been watching since 1977, but the Jedi, you see, they're SUPPOSED to be really powerful. Mix it up a little. Send Bounty Hunters after Smugglers as well.
Some thingsthe developers have to try to bear in mind when they read posts from frustrated players:
1. We pay for this, and it's a game. We play the game to escape the difficulties we face in the real world. You're making the game more WORK for us than play. Hardly worth paying for.
2. We exist in a game world where many of the rules are UNKNOWN to us. I refer mainly to visibility, how one attains Jedi, and a few other subtle points of the game, and it's very frustrating to finally get SOME sense of what's going on and how things work to not only have them changed on us COMPLETELY, but to not even be TOLD that they've been changed, if they're being changed, etc. Your own in-game help system ITSELF is actually quite antiquated and misleading to some players looking for help. It's very hard to enjoy a game where not only do the rules change, but those who make/enforce the rules don't tell those who play.
3. We play Star Wars Galaxies BECAUSE it is STAR WARS GALAXIES. Not because it's WoW or EQ2.
Smedley himself wrote that if we had ideas and suggestions on how to make things better, please tell you so that you can work to incorporate some of these concepts. I read post after post every day voicing the wants, needs, and concerns of players, only to watch many of them be ignored.
Thanks.
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